Technology at Church
Here's a good entry from the Urbana.org Whirled-View blog.
http://www.urbana.org/blogs/blog.main.whirledview.cfm?mode=entry&entry=1A1AC8C8-802B-2CC2-E8760088EB7F7D3F
You would be surprised how many evil looks I get when I suggested that we have a worship service with no music at my church--or how I turned into a very bad person when I suggested that we not use the PowerPoint during a period where there was a shortage of volunteers.
There was once a time where I was very fixated on technology in church. I would be amazed by going to Willow Creek or other tech-savvy church. Now I think that so many churches are going about technology in such bad ways--lusting after things that other churches are doing with technology--it is so sad when a church votes to add some expensive technology because they think it will make them as 'successful' as the mega church down the street.
I think that technology is a great tool (one that we should prayerfully consider provided we have a purpose and if it will increase community or empower a ministry), but it needs to be simply a means and we must be wiling and happy to not use it whenever it doesn't have a point--and believe me, there is a lot of pointless videos, PowerPoint slides and lighting transitions used every Sunday in a shallow effort to 'inspire people to worship.'
Mike
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